Unite4EarthDay: Groups raise awareness on environmental sustainability

A Non-Profit organization, SustyVibes, focused connected promoting sustainability among youths, precocious collaborated with UPS Nigeria to contiguous the Unite4EarthDay Campaign.

This inaugural was launched arsenic portion of the commemoration of Earth Day 2024, aiming to rise consciousness astir biology sustainability wrong the wider community.

The campaign, funded by the UPS Foundation, was an inaugural aimed astatine gathering the capableness and cognition of people, section communities, and Nigerians to advocator for sustainable discarded absorption practices specified arsenic integrative reduction, modulation to sustainable alternatives, and promotion of the circular economy. 

According to SustyVibes Head of Project, Sonia Ugwunna, the task began with a month-long online advocacy run that leveraged interactive media contented and quizzes to beforehand cognition of the dangers of integrative pollution, summation entree to recycling opportunities, and beforehand eco-friendly manner practices among young people.

Ugwunna noted that the squad besides initiated an interior run crossed UPS branches successful Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt wherever unit participated successful a recycling situation to cod the highest measurement of integrative waste.  

The run expanded its outreach efforts by organising thoroughfare league events successful divers communities, including the Odo-Eran assemblage successful Bariga, Lagos, the Waterlines country successful Port Harcourt, and the bustling Area 1 Shopping Complex successful Abuja. 

“These events served arsenic platforms to prosecute with a wide scope of people, including children, residents, and traders. Through interactive sessions and informative discussions, attendees were sensitized to the value of embracing steadfast and sustainable discarded absorption practices. By empowering them with the cognition and signifier needed to code biology challenges, the run fostered a civilization of biology stewardship and corporate action,” she added.

The clean-up activities included spot clearances successful targeted areas, advocating for recycling, and facilitating subscription drives to summation assemblage participation. 

According to the Country Manager, UPS Nigeria, Michael Umoh, done this concern they person besides donated integrative postulation bins to big communities, providing tangible resources to enactment recycling efforts successful the states. Through exemplary actions and one-on-one engagements, communities are inspired to perpetrate to integrative discarded recycling and prioritize biology sanitation, fostering a consciousness of empowerment and ownership for lasting alteration toward a cleaner, much sustainable environment.

The Unite4EarthDay run resulted successful accrued consciousness of implicit 1000 young Nigerians who engaged with informative contented connected the occupation of integrative pollution. The cleanup activities besides recovered 137 kg of integrative discarded and implicit 200kg of municipal coagulated discarded which were transported by our recycling and discarded absorption partners. 

The run besides empowered 3 communities crossed Nigeria to clasp sustainable discarded absorption practices via the proviso of recycling bins and matching to recycling organizations. Furthermore, we provided opportunities for implicit 200 young Nigerians to prosecute successful applicable biology advocacy activities, thereby expanding their knowledge, passion, and committedness to biology sustainability.